Sierra Leone - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Sierra Leone was 32.35 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.74 in 1967 and a minimum value of 32.35 in 2020.

Definition: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 46.93
1961 47.14
1962 47.33
1963 47.50
1964 47.62
1965 47.70
1966 47.73
1967 47.74
1968 47.74
1969 47.73
1970 47.71
1971 47.68
1972 47.64
1973 47.59
1974 47.54
1975 47.49
1976 47.45
1977 47.44
1978 47.45
1979 47.48
1980 47.51
1981 47.53
1982 47.53
1983 47.49
1984 47.42
1985 47.30
1986 47.17
1987 47.02
1988 46.86
1989 46.71
1990 46.56
1991 46.39
1992 46.21
1993 46.01
1994 45.77
1995 45.52
1996 45.25
1997 44.97
1998 44.68
1999 44.38
2000 44.07
2001 43.75
2002 43.40
2003 43.02
2004 42.60
2005 42.13
2006 41.57
2007 40.94
2008 40.24
2009 39.47
2010 38.68
2011 37.87
2012 37.09
2013 36.36
2014 35.68
2015 35.06
2016 34.48
2017 33.94
2018 33.41
2019 32.88
2020 32.35

Limitations and Exceptions: Vital registers are the preferred source for these data, but in many developing countries systems for registering births and deaths are absent or incomplete because of deficiencies in the coverage of events or geographic areas. Many developing countries carry out special household surveys that ask respondents about recent births and deaths. Estimates derived in this way are subject to sampling errors and recall errors.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Vital rates are based on data from birth and death registration systems, censuses, and sample surveys by national statistical offices and other organizations, or on demographic analysis. Data for the most recent year for some high-income countries are provisional estimates based on vital registers. The estimates for many countries are projections based on extrapolations of levels and trends from earlier years or interpolations of population estimates and projections from the United Nations Population Division.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population